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Re: Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

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Post by jerbear4328 »

This seems pretty cool, so it's free slow cell service in exchange for watching a video ad every hour, with optional prepaid plans for higher speeds/no ads.

It does seem that your cellular is only active for an hour after you last watch an ad, which is unfortunate if you want to receive notifications throughout the day.

Re: Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

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Post by kristopolous »

jerbear4328 wrote: post #2

This seems pretty cool, so it's free slow cell service in exchange for watching a video ad every hour, with optional prepaid plans for higher speeds/no ads. It does seem that your cellular is only active for an hour after you last watch an ad, which is unfortunate if you want to receive notifications throughout the day.

Otherwise people would use it for IoT infrastructure. I certainly would.

Re: Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

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Post by fullstackchris »

kristopolous wrote: post #5
jerbear4328 wrote: post #2

This seems pretty cool, so it's free slow cell service in exchange for watching a video ad every hour, with optional prepaid plans for higher speeds/no ads. It does seem that your cellular is only active for an hour after you last watch an ad, which is unfortunate if you want to receive notifications throughout the day.

Otherwise people would use it for IoT infrastructure. I certainly would.

That's exactly what my mind jumped to when seeing this (free IoT!), can almost expect someone will try to build some sort of automated video watcher to work around this caveat and abuse it :)

Re: Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU

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Post by throwaway81523 »

jerbear4328 wrote: post #2

This seems pretty cool, so it's free slow cell service in exchange for watching a video ad every hour, with optional prepaid plans for higher speeds/no ads. It does seem that your cellular is only active for an hour after you last watch an ad, which is unfortunate if you want to receive notifications throughout the day.

How does it know that you watched the ad? Does it quiz you or what?

It actually sounds terrible. I can get a minimal prepaid sim for $30/year (200MB/mo + basic voice and text) and that sounds preferable to this thing with ads.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133196831828

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